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Show I Raral England in 1825 Had Little Over China The Chinese minister of communications communica-tions sent from Peking a long cablegram cable-gram of poetic prose felicitating the managers of the Darlington railway exhibition in England on their centennial centen-nial of George Stephenson's "Locomotion "Locomo-tion No. 7." Unless the railway track was laid over the graves of ancestors In an Inland In-land province, the spectacle of the puffing monster, once regarded as first cousin to the earth-dragon, would excite ex-cite far less confusion in the celestial republic today than it did among the honest English yokels of Stephenson's era. Then, according to contemporary report, re-port, "In many bosoms the arrival caused the greatest consternation. They fled in abject terror, many hiding hid-ing themselves In the church, others seeking consolation in the bottle, while some of the more courageous climbed Into trees and at a safe distance from the monster's claws watched it pass." Reading that account one Is inclined to believe that Europe in 1825 was not many leagues In advance of the cycle ! of Cathay, remarks the Philadelphia Ledger. |
